Rules changes Posted

[bbcof83]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Just curious, but what makes you ask that?

A lane violation is defined as breaking the free throw lane line plane before the FT attempt hits the rim or back board. My first glance over this new interp gave me the impression that they were altering that to "a player's foot must touch the floor outside the lane space to be a violation". But I assume that is incorrect, am I right?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bbcof83

A lane violation is defined as breaking the free throw lane line plane before the FT attempt hits the rim or back board. My first glance over this new interp gave me the impression that they were altering that to "a player's foot must touch the floor outside the lane space to be a violation". But I assume that is incorrect, am I right?

Yes/No (depening on which question I'm answering).

They have not changed the rule that says it is a violation when a player's foot breaks the plane FT lane line plane before the ball hits.

What they've changed is to say that if you touch the floor outside the space with any part of the body, you've left the space. It just so happens that a player may have violated with the foot breaking the plane before they touch in the lane. But, a hand breaking the plane is not a violation unless and until it touches the floor (with the last point being the focus of the change). Some/Most of us felt this was a violation all along and was covered by player location rules (at least in princibple....you are where you are touching) but others felt it needed to be spelled out and so it was.